Pauline Vos

Pauline Vos

@pauline-vos.nl

Hello I am a software engineer at MongoDB, conference speaker person, and athlete 🏈 who is also building a Git course at gitlegit.dev (although I will mostly post nonsense probably)

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Sometimes I'm like "I'm pretty average at my job" until I do some community work and try to help someone with their project and then I'm like, uhm I actually seem to be kind of an expert. I mean it should go without saying after like 12 years of doing this but apparently my brain doesn't agree.

My kid has a music class and every week the teacher tries to send the same blonde kid home w me. And every week I’m like “that’s not my kid”. Then she starts looking for my (mixed race) kid’s mom everywhere until I’m like “yes hello I am indeed still her white mom just like last week”

Did a talk about building a WebSockets server in PHP and encouraged people to contribute to Ratchet (a WS library in PHP), and a guy came up afterwards to ask for advice on how to make his first contribution to OSS. He just messaged me with a link to his first PR (it's for Ratchet) 🥹

My friend got notes all over his building from a girl he had eye contact with on a tram. Trying to find “guy in Doc Marten loafers” like a real-life male Cinderella. They’ve been on several dates now. She is incredibly hot and cool. He cheeses HARD. This story may sustain me for like 5 years.

I’d love to learn more about quantum computing but unfortunately I know fuck all about physics, and therefore any resource reads like the sci-fi book your weird cousin’s been trying to write since high school 20 years ago.

“Oh so the space captain is using ‘optical tweezers’ for his ‘entanglement’? Yeah interesting premise. Anyway I’m gonna grab some more of the potatoes.” *avoids for the remainder of the function*

It's so funny how LLMs are pretty much useless for most real-life use cases without tool calling or RAG, and so tools will be like "thinking... executing function xyz..." Congrats, you just made a web app of ten microservices wearing a trench coat.

The Bluesky Way

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.

I’m finishing up the last recordings for my Git course. Most of them were taken this summer at the peak of my body recomp, where I wasn’t drinking alcohol, avoiding sugars, gluten, dairy etc. It’s absolutely insane how different my face looks in today’s recordings

And the wildest part is I’m still living pretty healthy! Gym 3 times a week, 2/3 liters of water, decent diet… just also ~3 units of alcohol per week and the occasional pizza.

Any time I’m out by myself people will ask me “where’s your kid right now?” with this puzzled look as if she doesn’t have a dad she lives with half the time I’ve taken to telling them I left her to roam the streets by herself. Sometimes they believe me for a few seconds.

Pushing back beating Hollow Knight because I know I’d have to get Silksong immediately and I just don’t know if I want to subject myself to that kind of stress yet

A hill I will die on is that it is and always has been “bitchy resting face” and not “resting bitch face”. It’s when your resting face looks bitchy! Not when your bitch face is resting??? Makes zero sense, idk why everyone collectively deluded themselves into switching the words around

I love when people send cold emails that I ignore and then send a follow up going “just circling back!” Baby there was no circle! It was just you there, it was a dash at most! Now dash along

Yeah. Whatever, lol. If anyone truly believes MTG is a changed person I have several bridges to sell you.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social

I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.

Genuinely what is the added value of using this sort of phrasing in documentation? At best it doesn't communicate anything about usage, and at worst it makes the user feel incompetent if they can't figure it out.

The worst thing about this city is that it’s small enough to run into people you don’t want to run into, but big enough to never run into who you do.

Whichever PO came up with that Zip game on LinkedIn is a true communist hero saboteur. Imagine tricking the board into thinking their daily active user North Star is reflective of actual economic value. Brilliant play.

Ah great I thought I'd go to the local office for the first time and I've already offended a Flemish man by saying his accent is fairly Dutch-sounding.

OpenAI bleeding money starts to make sense once you have to work with their APIs and start running into all the bizarro deprecations and BC breaks for things that were newly released not even a year ago I guess they're really doing that "go fast break things" thing huh